Matt do you think Iran will still be bombed by Israel or USA? Will it be to take over oilfields and pipelines or do they truly believe that the nuclear program is for nuclear bombs that will be used preemptively against Israel and regional US bases so they are compelled to strike first while victory can come with acceptable losses? This kind of reasoning baffles and terrifies me. Do you think Russia will commit a military response? Do you think China may try taking back Taiwan in the commotion or engage in all out battle against the allies if they try holding Taiwan? And what about North Korea? They fear that the south wants to preemptively nuke them with US support right? I heard that the nuclear site they are dismantling is outdated and needed to be torn down anyways and that they have much more modern enrichment plants elsewhere. Is that true? Do you think that Iran will eventually resemble the standoff in Korea but with more fronts and both sides possessing nuclear arms or is the war that’s been brewing there more imminent now than ever? Is the medias recent focus on possible reprisal with Iran a way to then switch to the military options when they later proclaim that a concerted effort at diplomacy has failed, or is Israel just going to be supplied and supported if they choose to attack preemptively and the US will settle on just surrounding Iran and playing the long game of infiltration? The scariest argument to me coming out of Israel is that they believe a regional nuclear war is inevitable so they figure they may as well start it before it supposedly starts anyways. And what is up with both USA and Russia having preemptive nuclear strike planning in there military doctrines? I think I felt safer when our fate hung in the balance of the effective stalemate of mutually assured destruction.

So you are of the opinion that the goal of having Bush lead us into war in Iran has been scrapped? I started thinking that too about Iraq right before it started. We will know more soon I am sure and when Israels new president is “elected”. What I meant about regional nuclear war i meant to say a regional nuclear holocaust is inevitable according to some Israel military leadership, with them bombing nuke plants now and releasing radioactivity, or later that Iran would surely inevitably nuke Israel and then receive retaliation. Even John McCain said the only thing worse than bombing Iran was not bombing Iran. This is all just saber rattling now? The way I was reading things is that a navel blockade was imminent for Iran and allout war by land and sea was probable within the next year.

I tried voting on articles and every time I do it brings me to the login screen. I login (and the screen at the top has a button for logout) but as soon as I go back to the main screen I am logged out (I see the login button) and can’t vote.

I’m using Firefox but anything half decent should be supporting that by now. Anyone else experiencing this?